The past, present and future of the universe is about to be revealed in unprecedented detail by Britain’s biggest academic supercomputer called the Cosmology Machine, based at the University of Durham ...

Everything humanity has ever touched, measured, or imagined as “normal” matter is a tiny sliver of reality. Less than 5 ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile not only confirmed one of the greatest mysteries in the universe—it also ruled out ...

A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...

About two decades ago, in 1998, a supernova observation began to slowly reveal the contours of the enigmatic universe. The ...

“The first thing we know about the universe is that it’s really, really big,” says cosmologist Michael Turner, who has been contemplating this reality for more than four decades now. “And because the ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

The age of the Universe has been a subject of debate for many years now. In an attempt to assess the value of the Universe, astronomers have agreed that it was formed through the Big Bang theory ...

Let’s say you have a baby. Maybe you really do, maybe you don’t. But Dan Scolnic, a cosmologist at the University of Chicago, does have one, and perhaps that's why a hypothetical baby helps him ...

The universe is expanding much faster than scientists predicted, and nobody knows why. A team of researchers have confirmed this dilemma with data gathered using a new telescope technology that relies ...

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

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